Word: ruralization
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Said one Dr. T. H. Corkery in a report to the Devon Education Committee : "The rural child has lost its heritage to the child bred in the country. Formerly one pictured the country child with a chubby face, pink cheeks, bright eyes and sturdy figure. Now you find many of the children in country schools are pale-faced, anemic...
Birth rates for 1923 were lower than for 1922 in 21 of 27 states. The highest 1923 rates were for cities in Wyoming (34.8 per 1,000 population) and the lowest (15.6) for rural Montana...
Among other "problems" which discommoded Mr. Taft in the White House was the postal problem. This problem has returned. Parcels post was one of the historic achievements of the Taft years-it improved the lot of the rural populations. Nobody expected that it would be selfsupporting, but few foresaw that it would come to be the great burden upon the Federal budget which it now is. Harry S. New, who runs the postal system, stated last week: "I believe now, as I have believed ever since I have been connected with the department, that we carry parcels post...
...Rockefeller Foundation announced that the result of recent work showed that hookworms and, to some extent, malaria and typhoid are rural diseases. "Attempts to control these maladies," said President George E. Vincent in his report, "have disclosed seriously backward health conditions in the American countryside . . . not due to causes inherent in rural life, but to a failure to extend to the open country the kind of sanitary and health services which have been developed in towns and cities." President Vincent also reported...
Across the Street. Apparently the rural drama is out to obliterate sex. That is the impression one gains from this new play of the small town. Author Purdy, won with his comedy-drama the prize of $500 offered by the Chautauqua circuit for the best play without sex; he earned every nickel of it. He walks around that tabooed subject more carefully than a cat around a saucer of cream...